Perci PBC

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Join us on January 10th to learn about how you can help shape the future of your neighborhood to be more equitable and resilient! Register at go.perci.app/eastie-speaks

Perci PBC is facilitating a grassroots needs assessment and participatory budgeting process to help empower local residents and service providers.

When: January 10th, 2024 @ 6pm
Where: East Boston Neighborhood Health Center Education and Training Institute (ETI), 250 Sumner St, East Boston

Light dinner will be provided. If you need interpretation services, please indicate your preferred language upon registration.

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¡Únase a nosotros el 10 de enero para aprender cómo puede ayudar a moldear el futuro de su barrio para que sea más equitativo y resiliente! Registra: go.perci.app/eastie-speaks

Perci PBC está facilitando una evaluación de necesidades y un proceso de elaboración de presupuestos participativos para ayudar a empoderar a los residentes locales y a los proveedores de servicios.

Cuándo: 10 de enero de 2024 a las 6 p.m.
Dónde: Instituto de Educación y Entrenamiento del East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC), 250 Sumner St, East Boston

Se proporcionará una cena ligera. Si necesita servicios de interpretación, indique su idioma preferido al registrarse.

Can neighborhood associations help make communities more affordable and inclusive?

Too often these groups are a small minority working against the interests of the majority, so we wrote up a guide to make them better! Here are some highlights:

- Researchers at BU found that participants in land use politics skew towards older, whiter homeowners. Just because a forum is open to the public doesn't make it representative! Know potential blind spots by comparing statistics to the overall population.

- Use the Census's American Community Survey to go beyond gender, race, and age to look at income, housing tenancy (rent vs. own), vehicle availability, housing cost burden, household size, and language stats down to the block group level.

- Decisions are often made case-by-case by the majority of those who happen to attend. Consider a more holistic approach that works towards a shared future vision. Which parts of your neighborhood should be preserved vs. change and evolve over time?

- Supplement your membership's lived experiences by leveraging outside reports and data. If you're in Boston, City of Boston publishes a great open data set of issues reported via 311.

- A process that's unclear, unpredictable, subject to discretion, and overly complex undermines political legitimacy. Develop a standardized evaluation rubric that even new members could use to judge development proposals

Which of these strategies are your favorite? What else would you recommend to forward-looking neighborhood associations? Let us know below 👇

How to make your neighborhood association more equitable and inclusive Neighborhood associations play a critical role in shaping a community both tangibly (buildings, businesses, sidewalks, etc.) and intangibly (safety, public services, sense of community, etc.). Here are 3 strategies to start improving your local neighborhood association, distilled from our work at Pe...